Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-09-22
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TEMPERANCE CoLl,Mv


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A SERMON DELIVERED BY THE p.,, @
OF A METHODIST c11URcn As'a ,
Minneapolis Leader
| "Drink causes disease. 1tw,.., #
life. To some extent it hands s as &
evils to posterity. Yet there is NV, a @S! @
of life that insures unsoandpess =, % @# @#
drunkard's children. Often tbev " W W s3 BI
to honor and strength and seel ny ~
ters from the past. But nos ., ,,s ~
the children and the household ,,m NV E s$|
polluted man. Your puny, scr,ss @ @
children; your broken, invalid wiz S3
are largely the result of what we m,,s s 81
ly term youthful indiscretions, lu,, ~, |6S| 81
awful crimes, not indiscretions and ~ @
ofted do not cease with youth. NJ. S
geroth, a leading gyrecologist, affirm. Ms W|
that of one hundred young men yhoi, NJ NJ
Sowing their wild oats" become tain, s
ed, and then seem perfectly healed and n
enter the marriage state, ninety n Is
their wives will have inhamations az
scesses and ulcers in consequence n
their husbands former course. T,lk E
of the wretchedness and heart.breas NJ B
a drunkards home What Of tho b
anguish and heartburn of wife E
polluted by her husbands foul ton,h h
Slowly dying with disease more loath. K
some than the leprosy as deadly as the
plague. Visit the graves of your sui.
cides, search the records Of your mad.
houses. Unhallowed passion, hellish /
lust keeps the books laughing with a L
demons triumph at the slow stes Of
imbruted idiotic drink. Any woman
can forgive her husband hundred
libations upon the alter of jolly Bacchus
with vastly more ease than one foul
sacrifice at the shrine of lustful Venus.
Our good women have formed home
protection partyS 1 do not wonder at
it. But is there not another home pro-
lection party needed? You may reach
and by suppress the traffic in strong
drink. You may reach every house
stand guard by every sweet cider barrel,
arrest each fermenting wine cask, es.
tablish Gordon of police among your
borders, and open every innocent look.
ing soap box and cider barrel; but you
can not stop lust by law; you can not
prevent its Importation nor prohibit
its practice. While sex remains and
the heart is corrupt, dangers abide
wherever humanity is found in society,
and even seclusion has it's temptations.
"More charity is needed in the TEN.
perance work. The motto Malice to-
wards none and charity for all" is in
danger Of being transformed into
charity for none and malice towards
all. Our workers are so earnest that
they often make no allowance for those
of different education and views who
are perhaps as honest as themselves
Witness the assaults upon Howard
Crosby. do not defend his views
though few men have done more fol
temperance than he. But dare not
impugn his motives. 1 have feared
that sometime our good women in theil
excess of zeal might be called thu
Woman's Cursing Temperance Uniol
instead of Christian Temperance Un
ion.
"No man living believes in absolute
prohibition of the manufacture AM
sale of alcoholic drinks. Every san
man admits their place in the numer
Gus lines of industries and medicine
Maine and Kansas make their careful
provision for the sale of liquors. Doe
it not seem that the difference betwee
applauded prohibition and hatefu
license is as much in degree as it is il
kind. The objects are different, bu
the traffic remains. In each case ther
is a monopoly granted by the state
and he who enjoys it is in duty boun
to pay for his privilege. Our red ril
bon movement in Michigan was stron
by reason OF its religious characte
and affiliations and brotherhood. Il
working with it I laid down thes
principles: l, cooperation with tn
church and no antagonism. 2, a plat
form pure as it could possibly be keI
from all corrupt and immoral men;
no political uses or alliances. The club
broke from the church. often encourae
ed corrupt men upon the platform
and too frequently were used for polit
cal purposes. No wonder they d,
cayed. have the greatest respect fc
all good men who are in the prohib
tion party. But there are too man
impracticable, uncharitable and sor
headed men in it. | have known som
of them to rejoice in the defeat of tt
most ultra temperance men, and in tt
election of debauchee, simple becau!
they had shown that they could q
something to influence an election.
when the one great question in tn
country was not prohibition nor eve
temperance, but the maintenance
national honesty, the prohibitions
lacked manhood to commit themselv
on that question. But the German
whom they assail, and whom they CT
not understand, maintained our hon
in finance, as they had, with tr,
Teutonic instinct, saved the nation
its great struggle. But may not wa
for our favorite measures to be adopte
But the church has a work now and
all times in saving men. The chur
is Gods means of saving men, for, fir
it is divinely appointed and does n
die; secondly, 1t convicts OF SIN al
leads men to repentance; thirdly,
knows radical change of heart viii,
makes the man loathd what once
loyed. and is his sure protector fro
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